Enterofuril instructions for use.

The drug "Enterofuril" (ENTEROFURYL), the active substance - nifuroxazide, the company "Bosnalek BIG", is an antidiarrheal drug, an intestinal antiseptic and is available in the form of:

1. Opaque capsules of gelatinous yellow color, with internal contents, which is a yellow powder. Each capsule contains nifuroxazide in the amount of one hundred milligrams and auxiliary substances such as corn starch, sucrose, powdered cellulose, magnesium stearate. The capsule shell includes: titanium dioxide, yellow quinoline, orange yellow, azorubin, red cosine, gelatin. Packed these capsules in blisters for ten pieces, and blisters - in cardboard packs of three.
2. Opaque hard yellow gelatin capsules containing yellow powder inside, or powder with inclusions of pieces of compressed yellow mass, or compressed yellow powder, crumbling upon pressing. Each capsule contains two hundred milligrams of active substance and the same auxiliary substances as listed in the previous position. Capsules are placed in blisters for eight pieces, and blisters - in cardboard packs of two and four blisters.
3. Suspension for internal reception is thick, yellow, having a banana odor, in five-milliliters bottles containing two hundred milligrams of the active ingredient, as well as auxiliary substances-sodium hydroxide, sucrose, methylparahydroxybenzoate, carbomer, citric acid, distilled water, banana flavor, 96% ethanol .
4. Suspension, in bottles of dark glass to ninety milliliters.

Pharmacological effects of the drug "Enterofuril" instructions for use describes the following.

It is an antimicrobial drug that has a wide spectrum of effects on infections that affect the gastrointestinal tract and is the production of 5-nitrofuran. It is active against certain gram-positive microorganisms and gram-negative enterobacteria. On saprophyte microflora of influence does not render also its balance does not break.

The pharmacokinetics of the preparation "Enterofuril" is characterized by an abstract to it.

After ingestion, this medication is almost not absorbed from the digestive tract, but acts exclusively in the lumen of the intestine. The entire dose of the drug is excreted from the body with the feces. The rate of excretion of the drug depends on the dose taken and on the motility of the intestine itself.

Indications for the use of Enterofuril.

Acute and chronic forms of infectious diarrhea, provided there is no helminthic invasion.

Dosage of the preparation "Enterofuril" instructions for use, gives this.

For children from seven years old and adults, he is prescribed for two hundred milligrams, four times a day, in a daily dose of 800 milligrams, for children from two years, up to seven for two hundred milligrams three times, in a daily dose of six hundred milligrams. Children under two years of age are prescribed a suspension of the drug.

From seven months to two years - two and a half milliliters four times, from one to six months - two and a half milliliters two or three times a day.

The drug "Enterofuril". Description of overdose symptoms.

Specific symptoms of an overdose in the drug are absent. If necessary, use an asymptomatic emergency.

For the preparation "Enterofuril" the instructions for use do not give any data on the interaction of nifuroxazide with other medicines.

During pregnancy and lactation, the use of this medication is possible according to the indications, but the consequences are not sufficiently studied.

For the drug "Enterofuril" instructions for use from possible side effects only lead to allergic reactions. The drug is dispensed in pharmacies without prescriptions.